A young mother claims she was “fobbed off” for five days before doctors realised her sick baby daughter had a rare condition that can cause a heart attack if untreated.

Kelly Rock said it took six visits until medics at Temple Street Children’s Hospital in North Dublin found two-year-old Sophie had Kawasaki disease.

The 25-year-old believes doctors made too many assumptions for too long that her only child just had a fever before the seriousness of her illness was realised.

She claimed no blood tests were carried out until after one doctor – to whom the Rock family expressed huge gratitude – analysed all of Sophie’s symptoms and ran after Kelly as she was about to step into a taxi after the sixth visit.